Crucial importance of pack size in the African wild dog Lycaon pictus

Animal Conservation

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 169-174

  Courchamp, Franck ^a,c   Macdonald, David W ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SACLAY   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CANIDAE; CANIS FAMILIARIS; LYCAON; LYCAON PICTUS;

EID: 0000251759     PISSN: 13679430     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1367943001001196     Document Type: Article

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